Microsoft's free antivirus comes built-in to Windows 8 as Windows Defender, but it doesn't have an option to scan individual files by right-clicking on them. Our friends at the How-To Geek show us how ...

If when you attempt to run a Microsoft Defender scan on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 device, but the AV scan fails and you receive the error code 0x8007139f, then ...

Update: This issue is now resolved in "Security Intelligence Update for Windows Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1.301.1684.0)" definitions. Microsoft has released a new update for Windows ...

Famous Last Words: "This never happened before." In addition to letting Windows Defender do whatever it wants automatically, I've done Full scans whenever I remember (aspiring to weekly), with no ...

You can now go to your Desktop and check the right-click context menu. It should be similar to what is shown in the first image of this article. The benefit of the manual method is that you can add ...

Microsoft has rolled out a fix for a recent update that has been causing the Windows Defender built-in antivirus software to crash on Windows 10 PCs when running a full system scan. With around half a ...

I prefer to have all my scheduled system tasks centralised...so I'd like to schedule a Defender scan using the *Vista's Task Scheduler*, rather than configuring it with the scan options in Defender ...